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Reviews

Survey Confirms What Everyone Suspected: Nearly Half of Publishing Pros Use AI

A BISG and BookNet Canada survey finds that 47% of North American publishing professionals already use AI tools — despite significant copyright concerns. Ambivalence, it turns out, is the new industry standard.

Publishing Industry

Publishers Are Feeding Your Manuscript to ChatGPT. The Authors Guild Is Not Amused.

The Authors Guild has issued a stark warning: editors and agents are quietly uploading unpublished manuscripts to consumer AI tools without asking. Now there's a push for contractual consent clauses.

News

What Is a Book Worth? The Anthropic Settlement Offers an Answer: About $2,931

The $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement — the largest in U.S. history — calculates the value of a writer's work at roughly $2,931 per book. The fairness hearing is scheduled for May 14. The harder question will not be on the docket.